How Additive Manufacturing Enables more Sustainable End-user Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Strategies | Zendy

Wessel W. Wits | Zendy; José Roberto Reyes García | Zendy; Juan Manuel Jauregui Becker | Zendy

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How Additive Manufacturing Enables more Sustainable End-user Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Strategies

Author(s) -

Wessel W. Wits,

José Roberto Reyes García,

Juan Manuel Jauregui Becker

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

procedia cirp

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.683

H-Index - 65

ISSN - 2212-8271

DOI - 10.1016/j.procir.2016.01.156

Subject(s) - spare part , end user , process (computing) , key (lock) , manufacturing engineering , product (mathematics) , process management , service provider , service (business) , systems engineering , computer science , engineering , operations management , business , geometry , computer security , mathematics , marketing , operating system

This paper projects how Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) strategies can be optimized to the specific needs of end-users using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies. AM can significantly reduce the design and production times for customized parts. This leads to key advantages for MRO strategies from the end-user perspective, as well as environmental and cost benefits. By enabling end-users to quickly adapt and manufacture spare parts themselves, the dependence on service providers, and parts and product manufacturers is disrupted. Therefore, end-users can better capitalize on their operational knowledge and experience. For MRO strategies, one standard process flow and four end-user optimized process flows are presented. All process flows are illustrated through an industrial case study example

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